Running

Loads of this shit going on from people doing downhill running and doing a point to point tt on the bike with a 40 mph tailwind to driving the bike and riding the run to cheat in qualifying for something like the ironman 70.3 worlds is being suspected and a serious problem. There is minor stuff where people are doing things to inflate w per kilo on zwift or whatever just for bragging rights without any real prize at stake although cheating to win a virtual race is hardly worth bragging about. Maybe when vr racing is important what do the organisers do? Make every athlete upload a fitness test 20 min bike 3-5k run with hr, power and cadence and have their weight verified? Outside efforts to include elevation gain/loss as well or it doesn't count. Have something where you have to include some training ride data for consistency? That would make any sudden improvements stand out more easily but all this takes time and money and until v racing generates enough to cover this i just don't know. You will get people flagging stuff if they know what an athlete is generally capable of or what times are reasonably possible on a certain hill climb or whatever but that won't be enough and then you'll probably get rivals flagging up every single effort uploaded by someone they have it in for. Then you still have the problem of actual doping as with lockdowns in place and no doping control at vr races there will always be a few cheaters that will be making the most of that. I thought v racing was meant to be a bit of fun but it turns out it can be just as depressing as real racing.